{"id":14927,"date":"2025-06-23T13:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=14927"},"modified":"2025-06-23T13:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T17:10:08","slug":"jpg-compression-artifact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/jpg-compression-artifact\/","title":{"rendered":"jpg compression artifact"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14928\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14928\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/250621-kayaks-meyers-creek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/250621-kayaks-meyers-creek.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1028\" height=\"771\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/250621-kayaks-meyers-creek.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/250621-kayaks-meyers-creek-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/250621-kayaks-meyers-creek-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/250621-kayaks-meyers-creek-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">JPEG compression artifacts are visual distortions that occur when an image is compressed using the JPEG format, which is lossy compression method. These artifacts become more pronounced at lower quality settings or with repeated saving.<br \/>What Are JPEG Compression Artifacts?<br \/>\u2022\tBlockiness: JPEG divides images into 8&#215;8 pixel squares, and heavy compression can cause visible edges or &#8220;blocks&#8221; between these squares, especially in areas with smooth gradients (e.g., skies).<br \/>\u2022\tColor Banding: Subtle color transitions may appear as distinct bands due to reduced color information.<br \/>\u2022\tBlurring: Fine details can be lost, making edges or textures appear soft or smeared.<br \/>\u2022\tNoise or Halos: Around high-contrast edges, you might see ringing or halo-like effects.&#8211;Mr. Grok<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[22,28,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photoshop","category-riverine","category-slabtown"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14930,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14927\/revisions\/14930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}